International Arab media crusaded for Kerry and American Muslims are heeding their call

Jewish World Review ^ | 11-1-04 | Steven Stalinsky

[SJackson]

They say a person can be judged by his friends

Over the past few months this column has discussed how the Arab and Iranian media have been following the upcoming presidential campaign. One common theme in the media has been to explicitly call on Arab and Muslim voters in the U.S. to vote for John Kerry. For example, in Egypt's Al-Ahram Weekly on April 18, Arab-Israeli Member of Knesset Azmi Bishara called on Arab-Americans to "rethink their alliance with Bush" and "shift their votes from Bush to Kerry."

More recently, on October 15 former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who last year stated that "Jews rule the world by proxy," called on Muslims in the U.S. to support John Kerry: "Vote Bush out of office. It is truly a [religious worship] that you would be performing…" He added that there is a duty to ensure that "Bush will not be able to determine our fate for four more years… I would like to appeal to you, the Muslim citizens and voters of America, to be united and to cast your votes against Bush, in the name of justice, in the name of Islam."

In an article titled "U.S. Muslims Urged to Back Kerry," Al Jazeera reported on October 24 how American Muslims are being encouraged to post a protest vote for John Kerry, even thought they do not particularly like him. The American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections was cited as one group calling on its members to vote against President Bush. This organization is an umbrella group, whose members include The American Muslim Alliance (AMA), Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), and other groups.

[marvlus]

And to hear that a majority of American Jews are rooting for Kerry is absolutely amazing (but sad).

[snarks_when_bored]

It's not as if it hasn't been clear for quite some time that muslims, even "moderate" ones, identify more with the muslim ummah than with the nation-state they happen to inhabit. We've knocked some bits of the ummah around in the last few years; hence, even many American muslims resent it.

At least we know how things stand.

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

[BayouCoyote]

BUMP!

[AmericanChef]

Multiculturalism crap alert.

When I think of things like this, I remember a picture I saw from Pennsylvania of a Muslim "community". You'd never know it was taken in the USA.

These kinds of people have no real love for the US. It's simply a place that provides benefits of one sort or another. They reap the benefits, but give nothing back in terms of loyalty. Subsequently, our nation deteriorates.

[Noachian]

Actions speal louder than words.

American muslims vote against the one man who is fighting muslim terrorists, while at the same time saying that terrorism is against the laws of Islam.

How can anyone trust people like these?

[Noachian]

And to hear that a majority of American Jews are rooting for Kerry is absolutely amazing (but sad).

The jews and the muslims are both on the same side in their votes against Bush.

Bush is the best friend the jews have in this fight. Kerry would sell them out in a minute.

I don't get it.

[DTA]

>>>>Bush is the best friend the jews have in this fight. Kerry would sell them out in a minute. I don't get it.<<<<<

e who does not know history is doomed to repeat it. emocrat-leaning American Jews should be reminded what Democrats did for European Jews before WWII.

Nothing. If memory serves me right, NYT mentioned Nazi death camps for the first time in January 1942, buried deep into the back pages.

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